Ed,
Interesting challenge. There is also a follow-up email that suggests much
of it is about operator training on how to use a new mode in a contest.
CW has been around for 100 years and SSB for 60 years so we kind of have
those learning curves behind us.
Johnny
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 12:03 PM Ed Muns <ed@w0yk.com> wrote:
> Log checking for several recent contests that used the FT4 and FT8 modes
> has shown undesirably large numbers of claimed QSOs that receive
> not-in-log ("NIL") status from the other station. The WSJT development
> team has worked together with contest sponsors and log checkers to
> analyze the probable causes of these NILs. Our findings and some
> operating advice for future contests are posted here:
> http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/FT4_FT8_Contesting.pdf
> and will also appear in the May-June 2020 issue of NCJ, the National
> Contest Journal.
>
> 73 from the authors of the study:
>
> Steve Franke, K9AN
> Don Hill, AA5AU
> Ed Muns, W0YK
> Iztok Saje S52D
> Joe Taylor, K1JT
>
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